Don Shave's Ancestral Family Tree
The Plymouth Colony (West of the Cape Cod Bay), British Colonial America (North America)
The Colony of Plymouth was located in Plymouth Bay (a western part of the Cape Cod Bay) and it went from the west in Sandwich around and up past Provincetown at the northern top of the "hook" Cape Cod Bay is a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean to the east of Massachusetts-Massachusetts Bay lies to the north of Cape Cod Bay. In 1524 the great Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to discover Cape Cod Bay, his claim proved by a map of 1529 which clearly outlined the bay Since 1914, Cape Cod has been separated from the mainland by the canal that cuts 7 miles (11 km) across the base of the peninsula [ source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Cod_Bay ] In 1620, the arriving Pilgrims from England (the Mayflower Pilgrims) first sheltered in Provincetown Harbor before relocating across the bay to the Plymouth Colony where they signed the Mayflower Compact, the first democratic document signed in the New World; some of the later arrivals shown here are a guess The Plymouth Colony (sometimes named as "Plimouth") was an English colonial venture in America from 1620 to 1691 at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith The settlement served as the capital of the colony and developed as the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of Massachusetts Map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Plymouth_Colony_map.svg Founded by a group of English Puritan Separatists (initially known as the Brownist Emigration) who came to be known as the Pilgrims, it was the second successful colony to be founded by the English in America after Jamestown in Virginia, and it was the first permanent English settlement in the New England region The colony established a treaty with Wampanoag Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure its success; in this, they were aided by Squanto, a member of the Patuxet tribe. Plymouth played a central role in King Philip's War (1675–1678), one of several Indian Wars, but the colony was ultimately merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other territories in 1691 to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay Despite the colony's relatively short existence, Plymouth holds a special role in American history. Most of the citizens of Plymouth were fleeing religious persecution and searching for a place to worship as they saw fit, rather than being entrepreneurs like many of the settlers of Jamestown in Virginia. The social and legal systems of the colony became closely tied to their religious beliefs, as well as to English custom. Many of the people and events surrounding Plymouth Colony have become part of American folklore, including the American tradition of Thanksgiving and the monument of Plymouth Rock [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony ]
The town of Plymouth is located in Plymouth Bay, a western part of Cape Cod Bay